Tuesday, 21 June 2011

Looking To The Future.

Just a quick update before the post, Hector Rex has spent 24 hours in his cosy smelly bath and has come out clean, I wanted to show you all a pic but I've base coated him as I didn't think so will show you the finished model soon. On the downside my hands stink of dettol.

Also Ravens have had one of the 5 man squads finished and I've been working on the command squad I'm hoping to have a shiny update post up at the weekend.

But for now my mind has been wandering, due to clearing out my hobby cupboard I've come to realise I've only done power armoured armies (Marines, Chaos Marines, Sisters of Battle) and many of my gamer friends are starting new armies several of them the armies I wanted to do, then I looked at Eldar.

I've always liked the aspect warriors, especially as you can paint a few different colours in one force to add some variety which I would very much enjoy. Then i picked up the codex and thought about the units I like, that combined with pen and paper led to this.

7 comments:

I'd be concerned about how little real anti-tank you have across the list as once your vehicles are popped you don't really have any outside of close combat and that's not real effective against decent opponents who remember to move their vehicles.

Hmmmmmmm. I very much question the effectiveness of this army. 145 points per Serpent?! It's almost as expensive as the squad its carrying! Is AV14 really prevelant enough in our gaming group to warrant that many Bright Lances? Why not swap them for EMLs? Least then you get the duality of shooting either S8 shots, or blasts vs infantry.

I would also drop a unit of Dire Avengers for a unit of F. Dragons. They are pretty much mandatory in an Eldar list, and your only real way of reliably dealing with heavy armour.

I think you may have gone overboard with the Exarch powers too. Bladestorm and Defend are both awesome, but I would equip the DA Exarch with twin S. catapults to make the most of that turn of shooting. I'm also not a fan of Acrobatics, but YMMV.

The theme is cool though, for what its worth. And I was totally going to do Eldar as my next army too! Grrrrr! =P

i take both your points, and you have raised the same issue i have with the list, but unfortunately all the good anti tank lives with banshees unless i take a couple of units of dark reapers and reduce the cost of the wave serpents (@ nathan they're 100pts basic!!)